The English word PICTURE could have four Russian counterparts: ⏺ рисунок = picture, drawing, illustration ⏺ картина = picture, painting ⏺ картинка = picture,...

There are a few words you can use to convey the meaning of “service”: УСЛУГИ – СЕРВИС – ОБСЛУЖИВАЕНИЕ – СЛУЖБА

Inspired by the book by Ignaty Dyakov “The Story Sensation” Discussing the chapter of the book about clothes and styles with my students makes me come up wit...

I agree with the poster that there is no such toast as "На здоровье". Why are НА ЗДОРОВЬЕ and ЗА ЗДОРОВЬЕ so misused, and what is actually the difference betw...

The word CLASS looks like a true cognate of КЛАСС, but, unfortunately, these words can act like false cognates in many usages. Even some native Russian speak...

If you translate the English sentence "I traveled to Russia last year." like "Я путеше́ствовал(а) в Росси́ю в про́шлом году́.", I'm afraid, the sentence will...

How would you translate this sentence into Russian “I don’t know if I speak Russian well?” If you turn to the Google Translate for help, it will possibly giv...

When it comes to talking about watching TV, the words програ́мма and переда́ча are often misused. The matter is that the Russian word програ́мма is not progr...

Replacing то́же and та́кже with each other is one of the most frequent mistakes Russian learners make. These two words have the same meaning too or also, but...